NEWS & UPDATES

New Delhi: Apollo Circus of Bulandshahr is displaying 11 lions as a part of an exhibition in complete contravention of section 38 of the Wildlife Protection Act. An attempt by the Uttar Pradesh forest department to seize the lions on Friday failed due to...

New Delhi : Just about a week after newspapers wrote about the final call for declaring wildlife and its derivatives, the reaction from Delhi’s public has been encouraging. According to official sources, over 1500 forms have already been collected from the...

New Delhi: Thanks to the synergy between bio-technology and information technology, wildlife crime investigations have now been made simpler and accurate with the introduction of DNA...

New Delhi: Researchers looking for nesting sites of the largest group of the Greater Adjutant Stork, outside the north eastern state of Assam, regrettably drew a blank. The rare and endangered bird, the Greater Adjutant Stork (GAS), has, for the first time...

New Delhi : The rare and endangered bird, the Greater Adjutant Stork, has, for the first time ever, been spotted outside Assam at the Vikramshila Gangetic Dolphin (VGD) Sanctuary at Bhagalpur, in the state of Bihar. What makes the sighting of 25 of these...

New Delhi: The owner of Apollo Circus, Bulandshahar, who had been running the show with 11 illegal lions at the Nauchandi grounds in Meerut for a month now, is said to have filed a writ petition in the Allahabad Court for a general stay order. He has also,...

NEW DELHI: Poachers killed two rhinos on May 23rd in the Tuplung area of the Pabitora Wildlife Sanctuary in Marigoan district, Central...

New Delhi: An Indian veterinarian is joining an elite international team going to Iraq to rebuild the devastated Baghdad...

New Delhi : A commonly used pain killer may be the cause behind the large scale decline of vultures in the...

New Delhi: Environmental groups have applauded the US Navy’s decision to accept a permanent injunction against peacetime use of the new sonar system designed to detect enemy submarines from great distances in oceans. The sonar system is said to harm...

New Delhi : The longest ever wildlife derivatives amnesty scheme by the Government of India that ended three days ago seems to have opened a pandora’s box. The little or no publicity to the amnesty scheme except in Delhi , the confusion among the masses...

New Delhi : The youngest member in the group, the seven month old bear cub being raised at the Centre for Bear Rehabilitation and Conservation (CBRC) in Pakke, Arunachal Pradesh, has earned many an admirer for its rather engaging behavior and has been fondly...

By Nirmal Ghosh New Delhi:When Queen Sirikit in her birthday message to the Thai people in August called on them to protect wildlife and the environment, Police Colonel Sawake Pinsinchai took it very...

By Nirmal Ghosh New Delhi, November 7, 2003: After letters were written earlier this year by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in Switzerland to the headquarters of top hotel chains with units in Thailand, many fell into...

NEW DELHI: Twentyeight of the 1,800 rescued star tortoises that were brought back to India about three months back have died of bacterial infection at the Hyderabad Zoo Rescue Centre, according to preliminary...

New Delhi: Poachers have killed two rhinos in Kaziranga in the month of November, according to delayed reports reaching...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has issued a notice to the Government of India and the state governments of Uttaranchal, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Bihar acting on a writ petition filed to ensure fiscal discipline and proper utilisation of funds released under...

NEW DELHI: In a remarkable achievement, officials of the forest department of Karnataka have been able to obtain a quick judgment in the case relating to poaching in Nagarhole National Park in which at least 50 tribal hunters from Madhya Pradesh were found...

VEERAPURA: Eighteen painted stork chicks have been rehabilitated near Bangalore after a flash storm swept their nests away in May. The last bird joined its brethren in the wild in October ending a precedent setting rescue operation that was supported by the...

Between July 2001 and October 2002, the activities of the Wild Enforcement Programme have led to 49 seizures and the arrest of 81 individuals involved in illegal wildlife trade. Most seizures have taken place in Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal, and Himachal...